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Bruce Butler, Photographer
March 6, 2008 - Spam emails have been going out this morning 'appearing' to come from my website. I immediately turned off the output internet connection and researched it. The emails are not coming from my web server, but are being spoofed by placing my URL in the from field of the emails. so... I got 2000 'failure' notices. It seems the spoof is sourced in Morocco. That can be changed as the hacker uses different machines he/she/it has control of. I have turned on a HELO source check in my mail server, increased my logging options to monitor this and welcome your feedback.
February 14, 2008 - Totally new server, please forward any problems you have to me at bruce.b@mindspring.com
Bruce
September 2, 2007 - I hate turning my server off, it's always trouble to bring it up, and this time, I lost the gallery drive. Backups are wonderful tho, so it will be all good soon. Bruce
July 30, 2007. I am moving this week, and my server goes where I go. see you soon Bruce
Mar 16, 2007 - The Main Guestbook is online again. Welcome to Spring on the West Coast
Hi, It's all ongoing, plenty of weekly bike nights online, updates to the weddings, etc. However ... Guestbooks have been shut down until I implement a secure posting method, due to spam. CYA soon, Bruce
February 9, 2006 - Server down during remodeling from 2-8 10am to 2-9 9:30 am. Sorry about that. Bruce
October 21, 2005 - Added Starting Gate amd Ajas for this week, and Doreen's Birthday at the Gate. New butterfly and osprey pics in the California Fauna directory
October 9, 2005 - Updated the Minawear Moonfest Fashion Party of June 14, 2003. I've known for over two years that this gallery needed updating, and tonight it received the 'touch'. In the Events Gallery. - Bruce
October 8, 2005 - Added Surfing the Newport Breakers to the California Beaches Gallery, caught up the Bike Nights, and included a new and nifty Orion Nebula image to the Astronomy Gallery - Bruce
October 5, 2005 - Added 2 new images, the Orion Nebula and the Pleiades, taken in the AM of October 5, 2005 to the astro directory.
September 20, 2005 - Added Lupas-Cruz Wedding of Sept. 17, 2005
August 28, 2005 - Added Aja's, Front Line Warriors, Starting Gate and Eagle Eye's ride for the David and Margaret Home to the Motorcycle gallery
August 20, 2005 - Yep, I'm back, been back, and will stay back. New Things to see -> Portrait Gallery, Leslie's images from 2004 -> Corporate Gallery, Orangecrest Dance Academy Recital, June 17, 2005 -> Events Gallery, Island Groove Reggae Sunday, Michaels Monday Kareoke, Michele Rene's CD Release, The Red Moon Review Art Opening -> Wedding Gallery, Sample pictures -> Aja's Theme Nights in the Motorcycle Galleries -> Motorcycle Gallery, Bakersfield Thunder Run, Hollister Rally, Kooool Ride, LA Calendar Motorcycle Show and Summer Thunder - Plus up to date Weekly Bike Nights - Bruce
June 8, 2005 - I expect to be out of Southern California for the following week, with earliest return on June 12.
May 27, 2005 - Server connection was down from 7:30am to 1:10 PM this day
May 23, 2005 - Pricing revised for prints and electronic files. Quantity purchases always earn a discount from the order form list. Build a package and see what I can offer you!
May 23, 2005 - Motorcycle Galleries are up to date, even the ones I missed last week.
May 15, 2005 - Added April and May images up to date for Aja's Sportsbar, Curley's Tuesday and Paid in Full Ministry Mondays to my Motorcycle Galleries.
May 11, 2005 - Haven't got enough of Laughlin? Visit Henry at henryphoto.com for his excellent galleries.
May 11, 2005 - Online now, Charity Rock & Ride, and the Laughlin River Run 2005.
May 1, 2005 - The Yuma Prison Run, April 15-17 is online in the Motorcycle Galleries.
April 18, 2005 - I've got pictures from the Charity Rock and Ride in Whittier Ca. and the Yuma Prison Run coming up soon. This coming week, I will be in Laughlin for the River Run 2005, April 20 - 24. I will leave a radio at the Insane Choppers booth in front of the Edgewater Casino. Stop by and ring me up if you know of a story I should be covering. C-ya
April 4, 2005 - The Bike Blessing and Blood Drive run in Oceanside California, is online in my Motorcycle galleries. I'm sure there are thanks all around for those who came and contributed to support Biker Tony and Laiken, give blood, and simply share smiles.
April 2, 2005 - All of last week's shooting is online. The weekly bikes nights are updated in the motorcycle galleries, and the Albert Schroeder Experience performance at the Blue Cafe in Long Beach is ready in the events gallery.
March 30, 2005 - Planning for April! - April 3rd, the Oceanside Bike Blessing Run, starting 9am in Orange County at Starbucks, 5 Fwy and El Toro Road. April 10th, Canned Heat at the Ibiza, starting at Cooks Corner or The Starting Gate. April 15,16,17, the Yuma Prison Run. April 20 - on and on and on the Laughlin River Run. I'm trying to be there, each of them, and the weekly bike nights. CYA
March 26, 2005 - This was the night! Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers at the Blue Cafe, on the Promenade in Long Beach. Find it in my Events Gallery.
February 28, 2005 - Server connection down from 9:30am to 4:45pm.
February 23, 2005 - Plan for this ride -> The Charity Rock & Ride for the Midnight Mission, April 10, 2005. Starting at Cook's Corner and The Starting Gate in Los Alamitos, Ca. Raising funds for a super Thanksgiving Dinner. Destination -. Ibiza Nightclub, Whittier. Featuring - Canned Heat - Vitamin T - Hollywood Allstarz and Quinto Sol. jeez, make the ride - more info in my Motorcycle Galleries.
February 13, 2005 - Aja'a Brazilian Sportsbar held their Superbowl Sunday party on the 6th. You can find the pictures under my motorcycle galleries, in Aja's Brazil.
January 22, 2005 - The word is going out, EagleEye's Ride for the David and Margaret Home will have a 2nd year. Watch for this date, and updates in my Motorcycle galleries. August 27, 2005.
January 12, 2005- The EasyRiders Bike Show Tour 2005 in Pomona is coming online at MotorcycleCity.com now! and the review pictures are avaliable in my Motorcycle galleries. Shot Jan. 8 & 9, 2005. If you need a reason to go, check it out here.
January 11, 2005 - Love Ride 21 (November 2004). Images are online today. All the people, the Skynrd and, the Love. Check it in my Motorcycle Galleries.
January 6, 2005: 8 P.M. - Comet C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) added to my astronomy Gallery.
December 18, 2004 - Added Costa Mesa Fire Department Training session to the Events gallery
November 29, 2004 - The BruceButlerPhoto.com site was down for 10 hours.
November 15, 2004 - Love Ride 21 is in the bag! Keep your eyes on MotorcycleCity.com and my Motorcycle galleries. If you cna't wait, checkout Love Ride 20.
October 30, 2004 - restructured pricing and print options with some common requests for larger format output and, expanded personal use licensing.
Total Lunar Eclipse of Wednesday, October 27, 2004 posted in my moon and planet directory. Southern California got lucky, and had clear sky window 'twixt the rain and clouds.
October 14, 2004 - Hi from the other side of the glass. I will be updating the news page soon with all that I have been shooting since June.
June 20, 2004 - The BruceButlerPhoto.com site was down for 24 hours Saturday, June 19, while I resolved connection rule changes implemented by Comcast since the take over of ATT internet. My apologies to you
May 18, 2004 - Watch out! I will be shooting studio sets of your bikes at the Indian Rider Appreciation Day in Corona, Ca on June 6. Bring your ride and let's do it right. Indian Motorcycles Corona, 2410 Wardlow Rd.
May 18, 2004 - Added preview to the Venice Beach Carnavale to Events. Added new Main St Car Show, Paid in Full and, Front Line Warriors Bike Meets to the Auto and Motorcycle Galleries. I pulled a couple of nice portraits on a new session with Kirsten for the Portrait section. I made corrections to the Shopping Cart tool to properly deal with electronic image transfers.
May 8, 2004 - Corrected Stock ordering pages to properly report errors and forward your requests
May 8,2004 - I found the image qoute forms are not executing, repair in progress
May 7, 2004 - Added a new set from Main St Carshow, Garden Grove, CA. I couldn't be happier about the results! I applied some night shooting techniques I developed some skill in while at the Laughlin River Run and they are very exciting pictures! In addition, today I enabled many more sets from the River Run. Have Fun ..
April 28, 2004 - Building the sets of images from Laughlin River Run in the motorcycle section. It was my first year and, I couldn't have gone to happier place. If you want to see photos from the first two days, see my set on Motorcyclecity.com
April 6, 2004 - Added BiketoberWest shots to my galleries from the weekend of March 20, 2004.
April 6, 2004 - Server was DOWN for 12 hours today, 1:30 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.
April 3, 2004 - Added the custom motorcycles shown at the 'Cruisin for a Cure' in Orange County, Septembet 27, 2003. Includes a great shot of the 'ZYBORG' bike.
March 30, 2004 - Adding images to my gallery of the "Thunderbird Balloon & Air Classic" held at the Glendale Airport, AZ. Hosted just outside Phoenix on a clear warm day, I captured over 1,000 images from the end of the runway. This location, though outside the static displays, afforded me ample opportunity for flying closeups. Look in the Events directory.
March 26, 2004 - Photo Stories published on MotorcycleCity covering EasyRiders 2004 Tour and the San Diego BiketoberWest.
Added under Events - "The Other Venice Film Festival" , It was a great opportunity for the participants to see and discuss the art of film-making with the people who make visual entertainment work. Held in Venice Beach, March 19-21, 2004.
Update March 7, 2004 - adding a DeathValley series shot in February and, an on-going Birding series to the California Section. New Galleries incorporate the shopping cart, however, AOL users cannot yet use this form without error, please use the manual request forms.
January 26, 2004 - Edison Power failure, locally, kept this server offline from ~ 7 am to 12:40 pm
January 21 2004 - Network for this server was down, 1 am to 7:50 am
January 19, 2004 - Added a shopping cart application to the site, you can see it in the Stock and Display section under 'Selected Prints'. It uses a self-signed SSL certificate and, encrypts your personal information on submission.
January 19, 2004 - I am having continuing faults in the picture order forms, please, don't hesitate to email me at bruce.b@mindspring.com until I resolve this
January 12, 2004 - Added a Monday afternoon visit to the Newport Aquatic Center into the California Locations section. On the Back Bay, Newport Beach CA. Newport Aquatic Center
January, 2004 - Added guide page to pricing , stock, ordering and licensing Order Info . Includes stock order forms, event and portrait ordering and, stock image list that is text searchable to 90% of the site.
January 9, 2004 - Added prelimary flyer for Eagle Eye's Ride for the David and Margaret Home to the Motorcycle section
January 6, 2004 - Added this last week a collection of birds shot in November 2003. I found these Winged beasties using the Santa Ana River from Adams Street to the river mouth on the Pacific Ocean, at Huntington Beach State Park, CA. Herons, Sand Pipers, Cormorants, and others I won't begin to try and name.
January 6, 2004 - Added December 12-14 CycleWorld International Motorcycle Show to the Motorcycles section. All the newest and some concept bikes from every vendor I know, and some I was newly introduced to. Triumph's 6 cylinder behemoth had many slack-jawed viewers, check it out. It seems all the Manufacturers had some kind of futuristic touring bikes on display. Additionally, the off-road fire in everyone's belly will be well stoked attending this show when it nears you.
January 3, 2004 - Added 'EasyRiders Tour 2004', Pomona CA. to the Motorcycle section. Lots of wicked custom rides here, and some old friends I was glad to see represented.
January 5, 2004 - Added the Body Art Expo, Pomona CA to the Events page, in which I incorrectly identified Art Aguirre(Church of Steel) as Art Agari
Dec. 19, 2003 - Lola's Closet Show Pictures are Up! I still have to review
the video, I'll keep in touch.
Dec. 18, 2003 - Lola's Closet is a DollFace & Co production, for the
Olive Crest Home for Abused Children. Opens tonight(9:45) at Club Monte Cristo,
Westmoreland and Wilshire, Los Angeles. The review photos are online up to last
nights dress rehearsal.
Dec. 8, 2003- The DollFace production is going online,
DollFace & Co
please email me with your name and some details about your performance to
receive the password.
November 28, 2003 - News! Feature Photo Story published on
Motorcyclecity.com covering the 20th Annual LoveRide in Glendale and Castaic
Lake!
Added Famdamily Tuesday Bike Night for Nov 25 2003 under
Motorcycles/Famdamily
Nov 30-2003 - Added the Drum Circle(line) at Huntington Beach Pier Plaza
under Califonia_Beaches/Huntington_Beach WITH AUDIO!
Nov. 9, 2003 - Added 20th Annual Love Ride in Glendale and Castaic Lake -
/your.picture2/Motorcycle_Shots/LoveRide-XX_2003/
Nov. 2, 2003 - Added 'Thunderation' the American Thunder H.O.G. Motorcycle
Party held at the Garden Grove Elks Lodge -
/your.picture2/Motorcycle_Shots/Thunderation_2003/
Sunday, October 26, 2003
- power failure led to multihour server downtime this morning til 9 AM.
October 2003 - added Event booking page to top page menu
/eventquery.htm
October 9, 2003 - added Michaels Sports Bar, Wednesday Bike Night to
Motorcycle section
/your.picture2/Motorcycle_Shots/Michaels_Wed_Bike_Night_Oct-08-2003/
October 9, 2003 - added Soccermom and Chris Hazard to bands from the Oct. 8
performance at 14 Below, Santa Monica
/your.picture2/EVENTS/SoccerMom/ and
/your.picture2/Events/Chris_Hazard_at_14below_Oct-8-2003
October 11, 2003
- Added Newport Coast
Concours D'Elegance 2003
/your.picture2/Auto_Get_Togethers/Newport_Coast_Concours_D_Elegance/
September 14, 2003
- The Acura Palos Verdes Concours D'Elegance let me capture Fords(a 100 year
celebration) from 1903 to the 70's. I feature the 1903 Model A, Classes of
Model T's and Model A's, right through the 80's. Other makes of Town and Luxury
cars were there by invitation for us too. Great Show. Palos
Verdes Concours D'Elegance, 2003
August 24, 2003 - Crissy modeled at Gunny's Run, the Choir Boys L.E.M.C.
sponsored benefit for Sgt. Edward 'Gunny' Smith. Model Crissy,
Aug. 24, 2003
June 26, 2003 - I
caught the Teapot constellation (Sagitarius) and Mars this early morning. A
drawing and photos show you now. Mars
& the TeapotJune 26, 2003
August 8, 2003 -
Mars video captures show the southern polar cap(top) and a nifty hourglass
terrain. Mars,
Aug. 8, 2003
July 17, 2003 - The Moon passed close by Mars this night on the West Coast,
and I have the shots. Check the Background image especially. Moon &
Mars, July 17, 2003
July 12, 2003 - The Crystal Cove Gathering, an impromptu collection of cars
that 'Excel' every Saturday morning, brought many more than the Ferraris,
Cobras and HotRods that I shot this day. Crystal
Cove Cars, July 12, 2003
July 10, 17 and 31, 2003 - The HiWay 39 Cruise(at Giovannis), Weekly at
Beach and Imperial Highways, brings together Classic Cars and Hot Bikes. HiWay
39 at Giovannis, July, 2003
August 17, 2003 -
Two Classics from the Main St.
Garden Grove Annual Carshow.
A Blue and Silver Plymouth
2-Door Sedan and a
Blue and White Belair Wagon. Main
St Annual, 2003
June 27, July 11, 18, August 1 and 22, 2003
- Main St. GG Friday Weekly Carshow
Pictures. This has been one of my favorites for Night Photography of the
Classics and Hot Rods. Main
St Weekly, June, July, August, 2003
June 15, 29, July 6 adn 20, August 10 and 17, 2003 - The Million Dollar
Sunday Cruise(at Brooklyn Pizza) transitioned from the DiSimone's location to
Warner and Bolsa Chica, Hungtington Beach with a nice new venue, ocean breezes
and a yet bluer sky. Great Hot Rods and Sports Classics. The
Million Dollar Cruise, June, July, August, 2003
July 13, 2003 -
The Orange Plaza
Car Show was an all Ford Mustang Show to my camera's lens. Part of the 100th
for Ford, I feature two Cobras and a heck of a line of Mustangs. Orange
Plaza Carshow 2003
June 23, 2003 - Every day, 6 and an eigth days, of New Orleans is online. We had a great Celebration. Also check out Pics for pictures from our friends. For the skinney on how we planned it, see
New Orleans Planning
June 18, 2003 - oops, last post was for the chatters board! Well, the New Orleans Visit Party begins, and the pictures are here: New Orleans Bash Photos
June 17, another change, pat obrians tonight, now, 7:45, see ya there, and check the web pages under chatters neworleans2003stuff
Monday, June 16, 2003 - We leave for New Orleans tomorrow, June 17. This will be a week long party. I will return Monday June 23 to resume my schedule. If you have suggestions or requests to shoot there, let me know, I will try to catch it. Bruce
June 15, 2003 - Attended the West Coast Super Show, Hot Rod Bikes, very cool, and the Minawear fashion show, where I got to take more of Soccermom the band. LifeStyles at the WCSS 2003
The West Coast Super Show 2003
Soccermom June 15, 2003
Minawear Moonfest Fashion Show
June 9, 2003 - Added Million Dollar Sunday Weekly Cruise page, Huntington Beach:
Million Dollar Cruise, June 9, 2003
June 9, 2003 - A pretty good weekend passed, with only one or two reboots, and minimal downtime. I've placed pictures from the Main Street , Garden Grove Weekly show:
Main St, June 6
and the VFW Anaheim Post Classic Cars Benefit at:
VFW Classic Cars Benefit
I completed another example page of the Mosaic Option using more than 8000 SoCal carshow images in the database:
8x10 Mosaic
I went to Rip's B.A.D. Ride, held at Oak Canyon, near Irvine Lake. I collected over 400 very sharp motorcycle shots, and two of the bands, 'Reno Jones' and 'Sam Morrison':
Rip's BAD Ride
I'm Still working to bring the Million Dollar Sunday Cruise online.
June 4, 2003 - Updated and moved the International Cycle show of
2001 to the Motorcycle gallery.
International Cycle Show 2001
June 4, 2003 - Huntington Beach Concours d' Elegance, seems I got
the whole presence of the SoCal Pantera Club at the show as well. Please
correct me if I'm wrong.
Panteras at HB Concours
June 3, 2003 - A big weekend passed with 5 shows to put online,
as follows:
Main St, Garden Grove, Weekly Friday night Cruise
Los Angeles Sheriff's Dept. Benefit Carshow, Whittier, on Saturday,
sadly, I missed photos of the Lifestyles Club cars, they left early
Million Dollar Sunday Breakfast Cruise, Weekly in Huntington Beach
Concours d' Elegance, Huntington Beach Central Park/Library, Featured
SoCal Corvettes and I got the European field, but missed the Porsche Concours
also held there
Checkered Flag Bike Brunch, Weekly Sunday show in Buena Park.
Further, I'm in the midst of stamping all images with a copyright
banner, so you will see that appearing in past and all future photos.
Note: A comment form is now functional on new web pages.
May 27, 2003 - Server boot errors have accumulated, requesting a
disk scan, followed by a surface scan, 9PM - 12AM. no errors found.
May 22, 2003 - ISP service failure, resolved pretty quickly. Added
Set one of Scholastic surfing competition, Friday, May 16, Huntington Beach
May 20, 2003 - added SideSwipe band images to main gallery page,
previously added the groups Tone Smugglers and SoccerMom
May 20, 2003 - Resolved brucebutlerphoto.com and brucebutlerphoto.com
DNS, not sure how, but repeated restarts on the reflectors seems to have
done it. 5:00 p.m. Anyone is welcome to complain, it can only help. thanks
May 20, 2003 URL brucebutlerphoto.com is not responding to some DNS
requests. Working to resolve. 2:48 P.M.
May 16, 2003 - Server Locked up from 8 to 10 p.m., boot error.
May 6, 2003 - suffered a server boot error around 2 P.M., corrected
by 2:30. Added Tune Smugglers webpage.
April 28, 2003, Created Photo Icons in 'Your Picture' directory
to add interest, ease subject selection.
April 24, 2003, Secured Order Submission Form to prevent hijack
by spam mailers. Removed bottom frame from gallery index to improve readability,
considered redundant to pricing link in top frame of gallery index.
April 21, 2003 Addition of second network card caused unresolved
conflict in network access, disabled second network pending resolution.
April 20, 2003, Found server had been down from 4 a.m to 8 a.m.
today. Rebooted ok.
April 12, 2003. Completed, (I hope), link resolution so all forms,
guestbooks and tools in the webpages will work in both domains. Added this
news page.
April 12, 2003. Added support on April 5 for brucebutlerphoto.com
using dnsExit. Alternate URL support includes: www.brucebutlerphoto.com,
brucebutlerphoto.net, www.brucebutlerphoto.net
You can view the server configuration here
April 12, 3003 Updated the dhis server address to 'ns.net.dhis.org'
restored brucebutlerphoto.com server URL
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Bruce <bruce.b@mindspring.com>